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The student and the body-snatcher and other trifles / by Robinson K. Leather and Richard Le Gallienne.
Leather, Robinson Kay.Date: 1890- Pictures
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A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
Austin, William, 1720-1820.Date: May 1773Reference: 25668iPart of: Nature display'd both serious & comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esq.r- Pictures
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A surgeon apologetically takes a breather during an amputation operation: a bottle of champagne waits in a cooler; a doctor and nurse canoodle while the patient screams. Colour process print after J.-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17094i- Books
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London unmask'd: or the new town spy. Exhibiting a striking picture of the world as it goes. In a ramble through the regions of novelty Whim, Fashion and Taste, as found in the cities of London and Westminster, Their purlieus and vicinities. Containing a Complete Picture of the metropolis and its inhabitants. With the various Humours, Follies, Foibles, Vices, and Absurdities, generally practised throughout London and its environs. Also A full and just Display of the most Striking Scenes exhibited in the gay circles, the theatres, gardens, and other public places of Modern Fashionable Entertainment. Including A General and Picturesque Representation of the most singular Characters that inhabit this great metropolis: Whether considered as Vicious, Ridiculous, Humorous, or anyways worthy the Pen of Satire: particularly Fortune-Hunters Matrimonial Brokers Modern Messelinas Dissipated Fops Demireps Sycophants Loungers, or Time-Killers Military Fribbles French, Italian, and other Foreign Leaches Duellists Rapacious Quacks Griping Usurers Black Legs Body Snatchers, &c. &c. The whole representing striking caricatures of the Various Inhabitants of the Great Metropolis, as "in different ways they run, some to undo, and some to be undone." By the man in the moon.
Date: [1784?]- Books
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London unmask'd: or the new town spy. Exhibiting a striking picture of the world as it goes. In a Ramble through the Regions of Novelty, Whim, Fashion and Taste, as found in the Cities of London and Westminster, Their purlieus and vicinities. Containing a Complete Picture of the metropolis and its inhabitants. With the various Humours, Follies, Foibles, Vices, and Absurdities, generally practised throughout London and its Environs. Also A full and just Display of the most Striking Scenes exhibited in the gay circles, the theatres, gardens, and other public places of Modern Fashionable Entertainment. Including A General and Picturesque Representation of the most singular Characters that inhabit this great metropolis: Whether considered as Vicious, Ridiculous, Humorous, or anyways worthy the Pen of Satire: Particularly Fortune-Hunters Matrimonial Brokers Modern Messelinas Dissipated Fops Demireps Sycophants Loungers, or Time-Killers Military Fribbles French, Italian, and other Foreign Leaches Duellists Rapacious Quacks Griping Usurers Black Legs Body Snatchers, &c. &c. The whole representing striking caricatures of the Various Inhabitants of the Great Metropolis, as in different ways they run, ̀̀some to undo, and some to be undone.'' By the man in the moon.
Date: [1784?]- Books
Bodies : sex, violence, disease, and death in contemporary legend / Gillian Bennett.
Bennett, GillianDate: 2005- Books
The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian / Nina Burleigh.
Burleigh, Nina.Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
Dissection on display : cadavers, anatomists, and public spectacle / Christine Quigley.
Quigley, Christine, 1963-Date: [2012], ©2012- Archives and manuscripts
William Pannell Marshall (fl.1828), surgeon, apothecary and accoucheur
Date: 1828Reference: MS.7312/10-12Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Books
The red market : on the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers / Scott Carney.
Carney, Scott M., 1969-Date: [2011], ©2011- Pictures
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A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [ca. May 1829]Reference: 37252i- Books
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and other stories / Robert Louis Stevenson.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.Date: [1992]- Videos
Genius of Britain. Part 2.
Date: 2010